Indrick Boreale
Indrick Boreale is the Force Commander of the Blood Ravens Space Marines in the Dawn of War: Soulstorm campaign. Famous for his speech impediment and baldness and also famous for losing half of the Blood Raven's forces after he presumably got all 500 Space Marines killed on Kaurava. This event makes him almost as tactically incompentent as Vance Motherfucking Stubbs as he lost 100 Baneblades BUT Stubbs did win the Kaurava conflict. He is the origin of the terms Empra and SPESS MEHREENS. According to Dawn of War II, he died in the Kaurava System during the events of Soulstorm, which some have interpreted as something of an apology from Relic for the terrible quality of the expansion.
Boreale Addressing His Troops
TEHRE IS NO TIME TO BE LOST!!
BATTLE BROTHARS!
SPESS MEHREENS, TODEH THE ENEMEH IS AT OUR DOAR! WE KNOW OUR DUTEH AND WE WILL DO EHT. WE FIGHT FOR OUR HORNOUR AS BLUHD REHVENS, AS SPESS MEHREENS, AND WE FIGHT IN THE NEHME OF THE EMPRA!
AND IF WE DIE THIS DEH WE DIE IN GLOARY. WE DIE HEAROES' DEFFS-BUT WE SHALL NORT DIE-NO IT IS THE ENEMEH WHO WILL TEHSTE DEFF AND DEFEAT! AS YOU KNOW... (He doesn't sound very confident of himself, does he?)
MOAST OF OUR BATTLE BROTHARS ARE STEHTIONED IN SPESS, PRUHPEARED TO DEEP STRIKE! OUR PERIMETER HAS BEEN PRUHPEARED IN THE EVENT THEHT OUR ENEMEHS SHOULD BE SO BALD AND SO FOOLISH. WE HAVE PLEHCED NUMEROUS BEACONS, ALLOWING FOAR MULTIPLE, SIMULN-TEHNEOUS, AND DEVEHSTEHTING DEFENSIVE DEEP STRIKES.
THE CODECKS ASTARTEES NEHMES THIS MANEUVAH STEEL REHN. WE WILL DESCEND UPON THE FOE, WE WILL OVAHWHELM THEM - WE WILL LEAVE NONE ALIVE! MEANWHILE OUR GROUND FOARCES WILL ENSURE THE FULL DEFENSE OF OUR HEADKWARTERS.
WE ARE THE SPESS MEHREENS! WE ARE THE EMPRA'S FUREH!
Codecks Indrick Boreale
After much petition to GW, they finally allowed Boreale to be a separate force commander. Stats:
Pts:90|WS:5|BS:5|S:4|T:5|W:2|I:3|A:5|Ld:10|Sv: 3+
Wargear:See Codex: Space Marines.
Special Rules
Deep strike beacons
Captain Boreale prefers to use multiple, simuln-tehneous and devashtating defensive deep strikes and so he carries a custom deep strike beacon into battle. All reinforcements using deep strike will not miss their intended location if it is 10 inches near Captain Boreale. In addition, the units that are deep striked as reinforcements can move and assault in their respective phases in the same turn they are deployed in the field.
Spehss Mehreens todeh the enemeh is at our doar!
Use during the start of the game. Ever is Captain Boreale the master of the obvious and so his army is alert, and so the player with Captain Boreale in their army will always get the first turn. If 2 Captain Boreales are present in the field, roll a higher number than you opponent.
Steel rehn
If Captain Boreale enters the field as reinforcements, he and his retinue must be deep striked into the field. While he may still miss the intended landing zone, he may move and assault in respective phases in the same turn he and his retinue are deployed.
We are the Empra's fureh!
Use during assault phase, use only if power weapon is equipped. Captain Boreale will attempt to overcharge his power weapon to it's limits, which will cause it to implode if not careful. If the player rolls 5+, Boreale and to any squad he is attached to gains +4 hits and +4 S and will also be fearless for 1 turn. If the player rolls a 3-4, Boreale and to any squad he is attached to will only gain +4 hits. If the player rolls 1-2 Boreale, his retinue and all the enemies engaged with him are removed from the field as casualties.
Independent Character
Captain Boreale is an independent character and follows all of the rules for characters in the Warhammer 40,000 rulebook.
Leader
Boreale is an inspirational and lulzy leader of men and can join any squad except those wearing Terminator Armor or fast attack squads.
We die heroes' deffs but we shall not die no! It is the enemeh who will taste deff and defeat!
Use during assault phase. Captain Boreale and to the squad he is attached to will always attack first.
We have fehled....The NEGRO!!
Should Captain Boreale be killed during Assault Phase, he will issue this final spontaneous and shocking battlecry that the squad/unit that killed him will be pinned for 1 turn regardless of their abilities that negates this effect.
How Boreale lost his "voice"
Scene starts as Thule defeats Gorgutz in Dark Crusade. Gorgutz flees the Green Beach and is currently on his Ork ship. Indrick Borale is in his personal Thunderhawk with Techmarine brother Spasmius heading towards the Litany of Fury. Brother Spasmius had an unclear mind due to seeing a daemonette on imperial television, and hence drove Brother Captain Boreale into Gorgutz' ship, looking for Gabriel Angelos.
Nob: Isn't that 'umie un of 'ose wez got trash'd up by? Gorgutz: Nah, that 'umie looks dumb, and 'ez talks funny too. Must be un of 'ose Chaos Boyz we'z stomped on. Nob: What shall we do boss? Stomp on 'im? Gorgutz: Move aside ya git. 'ez mine.
Gorgutz smashes up Boreale, leaving him with no teeth and a even more damaged brain. Boreale stumbles back into his thunderhawk, Gorgutz gleefully picking up his teeth.
"Brother Spessmius...Where are weh?"
Brother Captain Boreale's Bad Day
Boreale made doubly sure his armor was perfectly polished. He checked his sword scabbard and pistol holster. He fitted his Purity Seals on and ensured that his breastplate decorations were positioned correctly. He held his helmet under his arms. As he turned from his massive planning table, he checked his reflection in one of his other suits of Power Armour. Tall, large, inspiring. Perfectly presented, every inch an Imperial Space Marine.
His hair was still very short, but Boreale had begun to accept that. Even after two hundred years, his hair (or lack thereof) bothered him. But it wasn’t the worst thing. That would be his speech.
He had been fighting his speech for years. He was an inspirational speaker, able to turn his formidable speech-composition skills to demagoguery or fiery rhetoric. He always wrote and delivered his own speeches, and he strongly believed in the importance of words as an element of leadership. But he always struggled with the same thing:
Pronunciation. A more obdurate enemy than any he had ever faced.
He mouthed the words of his speech to himself, very softly, as he looked into his reflection on the chestplate of a Power Armour suit.
“Space Marines, today is the day…” the words came out very softly, but they were correct. Perhaps today WOULD be the day? Perhaps today he would get it right, and deliver the greatest speech of his entire illustrious career? He continued to practice: “today is the day we serve the…Empr-…Empera…Emperor. Tode-today…” He took a deep breath and started again:
“Today is the day we serve the Emperor by putting our lives, minds and souls in the line of duty in His name, and in service to the Imperium….”
He was doing well so far. Perhaps today would be the day indeed.
Confident with his initial success, Boreale straightened himself out to his full height of about nine feet. It had been only days since the attack on their Stronghold by the Sisters of Battle, where he had personally defeated Canoness Agna in single combat. The woman had charged in towards him, full of righteous fury, and screaming a challenge. Meeting her with his own blade and screaming his own battle cry (it unfortunately came out as FOR THE EMPRA, in the heat of battle), Boreale had overwhelmed her with superior speed and strength, and she had fallen on her sword rather than let him strike the killing blow.
Regrettable that it came to fighting the Empe...Emperor’s servants as such, but necessary. Necessary for the survival of the Imperium and mankind, necessary to please the Emperor and the Unknown Primarch. Necessary. No, essential!
Boreale gritted his jaw, and corrected his sword one last time. It was time.
He stepped out onto the podium where hundreds of Blood Ravens stood assembled silently and unmoving, waiting for his words. He felt confidence fill him the likes of which he had never felt. Today would indeed be the day.
Boreale drew a deep breath.
“BROTHERS!”
…
“TODEH WE SERVE THE EMPRA!”
Some things just never changed.
Boreale in Therapy
"Space marines. Suh-Pay-Seh Ma-Reens. Space Marines," Brother Tullus nodded, "Now, you try."
"Sp-Sp-SPESS-"
"No, no, ACE. AAAACE."
"EHSSS"
"Ace."
"Ace."
"Good. Now say 'Spay."
"Spay."
"Now say both of them."
"Spay. Ace."
"And all together now."
"Sp-sp-spess."
Brother Tullus delicately plucked the spectacles from the bridge of his nose while the other massaged his much aching head, "No, no, Emperor damn it..."
"I have failed..."
"No, no, no Boreale you-" Tullus leaned back in the chair, as it cried out in protest, trying in vain to think of something-
"THE EMPRAH!"
He fell back out of his chair in surprise at the sudden exclamation.
Brother-Captain Indrick Boreale was but one of many held at the Mental Reclamation Convent of Saint Gimpus, and really, Tullus reflected as he righted his chair, one of the better behaved ones.
For instance, one cell over...
"METAL BOXES!" Came muffled through the wall, shaking the diplomas bespangling it.
STEEL REHN
Steel Rehn
Some steh dry and others feel the pehn
Steel Rehn
Landing drop pods makehs infernahl din
Steel Rehn
Our eterhnel fureh strikes the hearts of mehn
Steel Rehn
Deep strikeh is our vehry own bent
Steel Rehn
No matteh how hard our enemeh’s try
Steel Rehn
They all see our reputashen is no lie
Steel Rehn
Forecast to be fallen yesterdeh
Steel Rehn
Yet it will likeleh also fall todeh
Steel Rehn
We fall to earth at enormouehs rates
Steel Rehn
The Empra’s foes cannot stop ourh haet
Steel Rehn
Our drop pods coveh the light of dehy
Steel Rehn
Our enemeh’s flee but there is no weyh
Steel Rehn
Fiereh blood rushing throuegh our vehns
Steel Rehn
Afteh we finish we prepare to fall back down agaihn
Steel Rehn
We are called dowehn by the radio
Steel Rehn
The purpose is to gain grouend controhl
Steel Rehn
We could not call it aneh otherh nayme
Steel Rehn
Everything else soundehd quite insayhn
Steel Rehn
We are preparing to fall onceh moreh now
Steel Rehn
The Empra will someday rewaredh us, somehow
Boreale stopped singing once he reached the end of what he had composed, and sat down silently, sitting his head in his hands. On paper, it was brilliant, a hymn that could be sung by billions of the Emperor’s servants across thousands of worlds in countless joyous anthems.
But what was the point if he couldn’t sing it properly himself?
YTP Indrick Boreale
On YouTube:
- Spess, Spess BAAAALLLDDDD
- dawn of awesome
- His original speech
- Captain Boreale finally got his own theme song
Boreale's Death
While there many rumors surrounding his death such as being overrun by flashlight wielding soldiers or most likely Creed. These some of the accepted events:
1
Originally, Captain Boreale landed on Kaurava 2 to build his fortress named "Borealum" however Governor Vance Motherfucking Stubbs refused planning permission, which brought Boreale to exterminate him. After that however, the forces of Chaos came to the Lands of Solitude to attack the Space Marines based there. While Boreale was indeed filled with righteous anger as they were fighting the traitors, something set him off the edge, something that had him delve into madness. After fending off the initial assault, Boreale decided to take the fight to the enemy by using their Rhino APCs as Deepstrikes were not enough to transport his entire attack force in time. As they arrived, Boreale was both infuriated at Stubbs and the traitor legion, however as they came to deploy he heard the biggest mockery of the all from the Chaos Lord named Firaeveus Carron....ironically perched on top of a Chaos Rhino he yelled: "Look Rhinos, RHIONS! Our enemies hide in METAL BAWKES THE COWARDS! THE FOOLS! This indeed plunged Captain Boreale into a rage that only a Khornate chapion could rival. He charged Carron and engaged him in mortal combat screaming: "We are the Empra's fureh!" Upon getting in close enough for close combat, Boreale overcharged his Powersword to it's limits and struck Carron with it. The sheer impact caused his sword to implode, with Carron looking in horror and Boreale dazed with but a smirk on his mouth. The sword's explosion was so powerful that in annihilates Kaurava II and presumably the entire system.
2
Boreale met his end when he accidentally bit his exceptionally long tongue with his superhuman strength. He usually left his mouth open for a while to allow his tongue to slide in,which was one of the many factors that affected his speech. However, he had overworked himself during his therapy and bit his tongue with his teeth, causing him to die of pain that even an Astarte could not endure.
Unsurprisingly, his death has now been confirmed in Dawn of War II. The Kaurava System campaign is remembered with shame and epic failure by the rest of the Blood Ravens.